Necktie-fastener



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G. D. BURTON.

NEOKTIE 'FASTENER.

Patented Apr. 20, 1886.

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No. 340,481. Patented Apr. 20, 1886.

UNITED STATES GEORGE n. BURTON, or BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTSQ NECKTlE-FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part. of Letters Patent No. 340,%8l, dated April 20, 1886,

Application filed February 6, 1886. Serial No. 191.040. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE D. BURTON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bos ton, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Necktie-Fasteners, of which the following,when taken together with the accompanying drawings, is so full, clear, and exact a description of a preferred form of the same as would enable one skilled in the art to which my invention appertains to make and use the same. 7

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents the tie as it appears on the wearer when held in position by the fastener. Fig. 2 represents a tie having simply an elastic fastener secured to its back. Fig. 3 is a similar representation of the elastic fastener secured to another form of tie. Fig. 4 shows a collar having a band around it and a tie secured thereto. Fig. 5 shows the band perforated and provided with loops in the back. Fig. 6 shows the band made with perforations bot-h back and front. Fig. 7 shows an ordinary bow provided with the fastener. Fig. 8 is a cross-section of a band and tie, showing the manner of securing them together. Fig. 9 shows a collar having perforations in the front portion. Fig. 1.0 shows a tie secured to a collar instead of to a band. Fig. 11 shows a band provided with loops instead of holes in the front. Fig. 12 shows a collar having similar loops.

The object of my invention is to provide a necktie-fastener which shall prevent the tie from slipping from side to side when the wearer is moving about,and to prevent the tie from sliding up over the collar when it is on the neck.

It is well understood by all who have worn or attempted to wear a tie around the neck with a standing collar that the tie if fastened tightly about the neck will have a tendency to slip up over the collar against the neck of the wearer; or if the tie is left loose enough so that this would not occur the tie will fall away from the collar, or the collar-button, or both, and will expose them in front, all of which is often very annoying, and it is to overcome these disadvantages or unpleasantnesses that I have designed this invention.

I am aware that Various means have been employed heretofore for fastening the tie to its place; but they are often so expensive as to render their general adoption impracticable, or they are separate from the tie, and arelikely to become detached and lost, or they have been adapted to be attached to the collar-button, ,(or they were dependent upon it for their usefulness,) and it is to obviate these things,

also, that I have constructed my present device.

In the drawings, A designates the band or guard, which may be made of metal, celluloid, or ofany fabric, and covered with a covering of silk or linen, as may be found desirable. In many instances this band is covered with black silk, and it then matches any ordinary dark tie, and it may be used with any number of ties. In the front portion of this band I form two slots, 1) I), which are designed to receive the inwardly-curved ends a cof the fastener B, which is secured to the shield D; or it may be secured to the tie proper, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3.

In Fig. 5 I show two rings, a a, while in Fig. 6 I show two button-holes in the band.

Instead of perforating the band or collar .1 may provide them with loops 6 c, as shown in Figs. 11 and 12.

In the form shown in Fig. 7 I secure the fastener B directly to a bow.

In Fig. 9 I show the collar perforated at the two sides of the front button-hole, and the fastener B is secured in place by extending through these slots in the collar. \Vhen this .sort of fastening is used it is not necessary to have a supplemental band, as shown in Fig. l0;'but the tie itselfservcs as the band in this instance. I

If celluloid is used of which to make the band, it will be found an easy matter to wipe it off with a moist cloth or a sponge, and in hot weather this style of band or fastening will be found very desirable and economical,as it will not be affected by perspiration, and the tie will thus be greatly saved from becoming soiled by moisture and perspiration.

In practice I find that the fastener B is better when made of some sort of elastic material-such, for instance, as brass or steel, celluloid, tortoise-shell, or whalebone-the main object being to provide the tie with a flexible fastener, which will be held in place by the band, thus holding the tie in place also. hen

I speak of the band, as Ishallin the claims, I mean the ordinary band which is secured to the shirt or the collar or removable band.

Having now explained the objects, uses, and advantages of my invention, and having described a preferred means of carrying it into effect, what I deem to be new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1; A necktie-fastener consisting of a band provided with loops or equivalent fastening means and a bow provided with a springclasp or fastening device, B, substantially as described, adapted to be connected to the band, as set forth.

2. In a tie-fastener, a band secured around the neck and provided in front with loops or receptacles, as described, in combination with a tie provided with a fastener, B, which is adapted to hold the tie in place by extending through the loops or receptacles, substantially as set forth.

3. The herein described necktie -fastener, consisting of a band provided with loops or receptacles for engaging with a fastener, in combination with a tie provided with a fastener having curved ends, to prevent the fastener from chafing the neckband or the wearers neck or the collar, substantially as described.

4. In a necktiefistener, the combination of a waterproof band provided with receptacles for receiving a fastener in front and fastenings a a at the back, in combination with a tie having a fastener secured thereto, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the above I hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GEO. D. BURTON.

Witnesses:

' \VILLIAM H. NASH,

E. F. PERKINS. 

